This article draws on the issue of digital sovereignty as a probe to explore the media scholarship of Marshall McLuhan as it relates to human sovereignty. Taking seriously McLuhan’s characterization of himself as a follower of Thomas Aquinas, the article argues that McLuhan’s application of gestalt psychology to culture and technology is analogical to Aquinas’s existential development of the figure–ground polarity central to Aristotelian hylomorphism. This structural equivalence allows us to understand McLuhan’s notion of ground in two primary senses – as acoustic material potency and as tactile existential actuality. I contend that conflating the existential Ground of human artefacts with the material ground of human artefacts obsolesces the figural structure of human perception, leading to a posthuman metaphysics that is at odds both with McLuhan’s humanistic message and with efforts to promote human sovereignty in the digital world.
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{"title":"Towards a law and communication theory","authors":"P. Morais","doi":"10.1386/eme_00138_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00138_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":"880 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66706509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the contours of McLuhan’s prescience in the present media ecology at the intersection of the simultaneous global crises represented by authoritarian nationalism, the COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change. This article considers the emergence of new forms of collective political subjectivity and tribalism occasioned by the internet and social media and reflects on the apparent limits of our ability to leverage technical expertise or knowledge to solve persistent problems in the material world. Finally, this article reflects on the historical instance of electronic communications media and how it intensively accelerates and compresses time in the conceptual, cultural and affective space in what Neil Postman termed ‘Technocracy’ to rethink twentieth-century ideas of the citizen subject.
{"title":"A world without walls and an electronic culture without limit","authors":"J. Meyers","doi":"10.1386/eme_00141_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00141_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the contours of McLuhan’s prescience in the present media ecology at the intersection of the simultaneous global crises represented by authoritarian nationalism, the COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change. This article considers the emergence of new forms of collective political subjectivity and tribalism occasioned by the internet and social media and reflects on the apparent limits of our ability to leverage technical expertise or knowledge to solve persistent problems in the material world. Finally, this article reflects on the historical instance of electronic communications media and how it intensively accelerates and compresses time in the conceptual, cultural and affective space in what Neil Postman termed ‘Technocracy’ to rethink twentieth-century ideas of the citizen subject.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46803415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This probe meditates on media laws and media ethics, asking how do they differ and how are they related? The intersections between social media and journalism are given context with sustained attention to the effect and interrelations between culture and technology. The probe suggests an ethicist, in applying moral consideration to the contemplation of remedies through ‘presearch’, is not only unconfined by the deliberation of tetrads, but must make them springboards to achieve perception of the right ends through interdisciplinary reasoning, trained observation of individual cases, and critical examination of generally accepted beliefs.
{"title":"McLuhan, social media and ethics","authors":"T. Cooper","doi":"10.1386/eme_00143_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00143_7","url":null,"abstract":"This probe meditates on media laws and media ethics, asking how do they differ and how are they related? The intersections between social media and journalism are given context with sustained attention to the effect and interrelations between culture and technology. The probe suggests an ethicist, in applying moral consideration to the contemplation of remedies through ‘presearch’, is not only unconfined by the deliberation of tetrads, but must make them springboards to achieve perception of the right ends through interdisciplinary reasoning, trained observation of individual cases, and critical examination of generally accepted beliefs.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49148697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article follows Innis, McLuhan and others in exploring the concept of space, but does so in relation to the survival and evolution of Canadian democracy within our emerging digital world. First considering the spatial implications of Canadian geography, the country’s constitution and institutions, along with the federal government’s spending power, it then considers those associated with economic staples and particularly how these affect our institutional infrastructure, especially in disturbing cases of ‘state capture’. Alongside identifying and addressing a number of concerns relating to digital space as now configured (and which will require fundamental reform), I also probe the concept of ‘inner space’ or interiority. I do this specifically in relation to its role as one of the most valuable resources of the digital age, not only in its commercial exploitation but also in terms of its defence: ultimately, in the service of mobilizing towards a more democratic culture. In demonstrating how Canada, following McLuhan, might function as a ‘counter-environment’ that makes the ‘world environment’ of the United States perceptible to its global occupants, I maintain that what we require is the exact same cultural remedy that Innis prescribed to counter the biases of the space-binding and time-annihilating electronic space of his own time. Namely, what is required is the retrieval of what Innis referred to as ‘oral tradition’, accompanied by the necessary and concomitant re-embedding of people within their local communities.
{"title":"Canada as counter-environment: Canadian democracy in a digital world","authors":"P. Rose","doi":"10.1386/eme_00139_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00139_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article follows Innis, McLuhan and others in exploring the concept of space, but does so in relation to the survival and evolution of Canadian democracy within our emerging digital world. First considering the spatial implications of Canadian geography, the country’s constitution and institutions, along with the federal government’s spending power, it then considers those associated with economic staples and particularly how these affect our institutional infrastructure, especially in disturbing cases of ‘state capture’. Alongside identifying and addressing a number of concerns relating to digital space as now configured (and which will require fundamental reform), I also probe the concept of ‘inner space’ or interiority. I do this specifically in relation to its role as one of the most valuable resources of the digital age, not only in its commercial exploitation but also in terms of its defence: ultimately, in the service of mobilizing towards a more democratic culture. In demonstrating how Canada, following McLuhan, might function as a ‘counter-environment’ that makes the ‘world environment’ of the United States perceptible to its global occupants, I maintain that what we require is the exact same cultural remedy that Innis prescribed to counter the biases of the space-binding and time-annihilating electronic space of his own time. Namely, what is required is the retrieval of what Innis referred to as ‘oral tradition’, accompanied by the necessary and concomitant re-embedding of people within their local communities.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47557015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ernest A. Hakanen, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Greg Loring-Albright
{"title":"Keeping the lights on","authors":"Ernest A. Hakanen, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Greg Loring-Albright","doi":"10.1386/eme_00137_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00137_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43298063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan, Paul Roquet (2022) New York: Columbia University Press, 254 pp., ISBN 978-0-23120-534-4, h/bk, $140.00 ISBN 978-0-23120-535-1, p/bk, $35.00 ISBN 978-0-23155-596-8, e-book, $16.99
《沉浸式封闭:日本的虚拟现实》，Paul Roquet(2022)纽约:哥伦比亚大学出版社，254页，ISBN 978-0-23120-534-4, h/bk， $140.00 ISBN 978-0-23120-535-1, p/bk， $35.00 ISBN 978-0-23155-596-8，电子书，$16.99
{"title":"The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan, Paul Roquet (2022)","authors":"Natalia Wohar","doi":"10.1386/eme_00145_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00145_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan, Paul Roquet (2022)\u0000 New York: Columbia University Press, 254 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-0-23120-534-4, h/bk, $140.00\u0000 ISBN 978-0-23120-535-1, p/bk, $35.00\u0000 ISBN 978-0-23155-596-8, e-book, $16.99","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43702069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present work advances knowledge by placing law and media ecology in a dialogue. It demonstrates that using the theoretical framework of media ecology creates new insights. Its use enables legal scholars to identify and analyse invisibilities in the law. By engaging with such invisibilities, legal scholars can become more self-reflective about how they engage with the law. They can gain a different perspective on legal issues and reframe how they understand these issues. As a result, the legal community becomes better positioned to propose new approaches to tackling legal problems. The article uses numerous case studies. Two case studies involve law and emotion scholarship. The third case study focuses on scholarship, which examines the sensory dimension of law.
{"title":"Law and media ecology at a tea party: Engaging with the invisibilities within the law","authors":"T. Krupiy","doi":"10.1386/eme_00140_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00140_1","url":null,"abstract":"The present work advances knowledge by placing law and media ecology in a dialogue. It demonstrates that using the theoretical framework of media ecology creates new insights. Its use enables legal scholars to identify and analyse invisibilities in the law. By engaging with such invisibilities, legal scholars can become more self-reflective about how they engage with the law. They can gain a different perspective on legal issues and reframe how they understand these issues. As a result, the legal community becomes better positioned to propose new approaches to tackling legal problems. The article uses numerous case studies. Two case studies involve law and emotion scholarship. The third case study focuses on scholarship, which examines the sensory dimension of law.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46033813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreword by the translator","authors":"M. Polski","doi":"10.1386/eme_00124_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00124_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47844811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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